2022/04/29 by Kjetil Tronvoll · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #African history and culture analysis
paper · doi:10.1525/curh.2022.121.835.163
openalex publication_date 2022/04/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The civil war that erupted in November 2020 in Ethiopia was a culmination of several overlapping, long-running conflicts. The main conflict involves the nature of the Ethiopian state: whether it should be a unified structure reflecting a singular national identity, or a multiethnic federal system preserving autonomy for regional states. The discrete conflicts involve tensions between the central state and the regional states of Tigray and Oromo; territorial disputes between different ethnic groups; and an old rivalry between the regime of neighboring Eritrea and the ruling party in Tigray. The complex layers of the war make peace all the more elusive.